After a hearty meal which put the local Chinese restaurant and its mascot Wanton Man out of business, everyone re-grouped in front of Capsule Corp.
"Like, man. That was a great snack." Shaggy sighed contentedly. He was sitting on the ground, leaning back to back with Scooby Doo; both of them were patting their full stomachs, picking at their teeth with tooth picks.
"Reah." Scooby agreed, letting out a large burp. "Rexcuse me!"
"Well, with the problem of being hungry out of the way, it's time we got back to solving the mystery of how to get back home." Fred declared.
"The most reasonable thing to do is to head back the way we came." Velma decided.
"Sounds like a plan." Daphne added.
Bulma came around the corner, dusting her palms. "Well, your vehicle is refueled, and everything seems to be in working order." She informed the gang.
"Too bad Velma didn't bring that map." Fred sighed. "We wouldn't be in this mess, then."
Velma frowned. "I did bring the map! You didn't listen when I said to make a left turn at Albuquerque!" She protested, but nobody paid her any mind.
"Like, I'm gonna miss this place." Shaggy said with a sigh. "It was, like, fun here. No mysteries, no monsters, no creepy guys in masks. No being lured into scary places with Scooby Snacks..." Both Shaggy and Scooby sighed. "Like, Scoob, we really need to get new friends when we get home." He whispered to his dog.
"Reah. Rike chefs or romething." Scooby agreed.
From around the corner Bulma had just appeared from, Vegeta stormed towards the group. "I have thought it over carefully," he hissed, "and I will not be up-staged by a craven coward such as yourself!" He pointed a gloved hand at Shaggy.
"Like, ut-oh." Shaggy gulped.
"Reah. Rut-roh." Scooby added.
The gang froze, like deer caught in headlights, as up-beat, "groovy" music began to play from nowhere.
"... Since Monday mornin' / I've been dreaming 'bout you / Seven days a week now / Seven days a week / You've even got me talkin' in my sleep!" The upbeat sixties tune proclaimed.
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby all screamed in unison then scattered, running away in all directions.
Bulma tilted her head to the side. "Where is that music coming from?" She asked. Vegeta, now too confused to seek Shaggy's demise, merely shrugged.
From around the building, Goten came, followed closely by Bra and Marron. On the young demi-Saiya-jin's shoulder, he carried a boombox, which played the same song that everyone had heard just moments earlier.
Bulma wrinkled her nose. "It figures that would be coming from Kakarott's spawn." Vegeta snorted to his mate.
"Freddy! Daphne! Velma! Come back! It was just Goten with his boombox!" Bulma called out, no no avail. She sighed, then looked over to Bra, Goten, and Marron. "You three." She said, putting her hands on her hips. "You scared them away, now you go find them!"
All three saluted. "Yes, ma'am!" They exclaimed, then ran off to find the gang.
"Scooby and Shaggy won't be so hard to find," Bulma mused, picking up the box of Scooby Snacks that Velma had dropped. "Scooby, Shaggy! I have a snack for you!" She called out, shaking the box. Immediately, the boy and his dog appeared.
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After Fred, Daphne, and Velma returned, the gang said their farewells to Bulma and the others and got into the van.
"Uhm, just to remind me--not like I forgot or anything," Fred said, looking over his shoulder towards the back-seat where Scooby and Shaggy sat, "but which way did we come from again?"
Shaggy rolled his eyes. "Like, duh, Fred, we came from that way," he explained, pointing in the direction they'd arrived from. "Like, from over that big hill."
"Oh, right. I knew that." Fred chuckled nervously. "Well, Miss Bulma, thank you for your hospitality!"
"Think nothing of it." Bulma smiled. "I just wish the others were here to see you off."
Velma and Daphne merely smiled and waved. Fred started the car and they pulled out of the driveway of Capsule Corp., heading back the way they had come.
"Like, I don't want this to work." Shaggy complained. "I don't want to go back to solving spooky mysteries."
"Re reither." Scooby pouted.
Daphne giggled. "Don't worry. We won't be searching for ghosts and the like." Daphne turned towards the two, her blue eyes twinkling as she grabbed a fistful of her own hair and gave it a sharp tug upward.
"What?!" Scooby and Shaggy exclaimed in unison. The hair, which upon closer inspection was actually a wig, pulled away, and the girl shook out her blonde hair.
"Like, it's Marron!"
Velma turned to look at the boy and his dog, tipping her glasses to wink at them. She then took the glasses off, and mimicked Marron's motions, removing her wig.
"Rand Bra, too!"
Scooby and Shaggy looked at each other, then to the two girls. "Like, that must mean..." Shaggy started, then reached forward, yanking at Fred's blonde hair. It came loose, easily, as Goten's wild ebony hair sprang out from underneath.
"We like exploring." Marron explained.
"And we love to eat." Goten chimed in.
Shaggy and Scooby smiled to each other. "Like, this is going to be great! No more mysteries, no more spooky houses! Just food, music, and the road! But, like, what happened to Freddy and the girls?"
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Elsewhere, a blonde man and two redheads--one very stuck-up and beautiful and the other rather nerdy, wearing glasses and an orange turtle neck-- ran for their lives, screaming, as a giant dinosaur chased them away from Capsule Corp. and into the sunset.
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Bra grinned wickedly. "Freddy and the girls? Oh, they're doing just fine..." She said sweetly.
Shaggy had a feeling that that wasn't entirely the truth, but he shrugged. As long as it meant that they wouldn't be going places that scared him and Scooby out of their minds, the two didn't care.
"Well, gang," Marron smiled, "where to now?"
"Let's get something to eat!" Scooby, Goten, and Shaggy exclaimed in unison, causing Bra and Marron to laugh.
"Okay. Let's go!"
The End .............. ?
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A note from Marron: The song which plays from Goten's boombox actually appears in an episode of "Scooby Doo: Where Are You!" o.O; The song is copyright to... whoever wrote it. It was originally released in "Scooby Doo: Where Are You!" Episode #22, September 26, 1970. I know this not because I'm a freak, but because I looked it up. So. You've learned another useless tidbit!